Germany.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 265, 19 April 1915, Page 5

Germany.

AN APPRECIATION. OF BRITAIN'S KINDNESS TO GERMANS, Received April 19, 12.8 ftJB. Amsterdam, April 18. The Berliner Tageblatt publishes, without comment, a warm tribute of a, returned member of a Zeppelin crew to the kindness with which Germans in England are treated. There is no hatred there against the Germans, whilst the great hatred of Germany against England is incomprehensible in England. COPPER IN PLENTY. ACCORDING TO THE KAISER'S . MOUTHPIECE. London, April lii. Herr Ballin, interviewed, tendered in- ] side information that German}' had ample copper. She was replacing overhead tram-wires by steel. A MATRIMONIAL SCANDAL. Received April 18, 5.5 p.m. 'Berlin, April 17. The Berliner Tageblatt calls on the Government to stop the scandal of matrimonial agencies flooding Germany with oilers of marriage from widows of officers and soldiers, frequently just after the casualty lists are published.

IN STRAITS FOR RUBBER. Received April 18, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, April 17. The Government is preparing a rubber collection campaign throughout Germany. Commencing on the 10th wagons will traverse the streets daily, collecting rubber shoes, and even babies' comforters. GERMAN REPRISALS. BRITISH PRISONERS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. Received April 18, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, April 17. A German telegram states that a number of British ollicors, including the son of a former Ambassador at Berlin, have been interned in a fortress at Magdeburg and subjected to solitary confinement, in reprisal against England's treatment of submarine crews. GERMAN SHELTERS DESTROYED.

APPRECIABLE. PROGRESS .MADE. Received April 10, 12.15 a.m. Paris, April 18. Ofliial: Our artillery destroyed several caves used as shelters at Pasly, in the Aisne Valley. We. appreciably progressed on tho banks of the Feclit, and seized a spur on the northern bank. West of Metzeral, the Chasseurs, by a brilliant attack, carried tho summit of Selinepfeurnthkopf.